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How to become a better manager in social work and social care : essential skills for managing care / Les Gallop and Trish Hafford-Letchfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallop, Les, 1946-
- Series:
- Essential Skills for Social Work Managers
- Essential skills for social work and social care managers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social workers--Supervision of.
- Social workers.
- Social work administration.
- Social service.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This handbook covers the essential skills social work and social care managers need to be excellent managers. Topics include time management, recruitment, managing meetings, involving service users, conflict management and mentoring. A self-assessment tool is included and the book features learning activities, case examples, and practical tools.
- Contents:
- How to Become a Better Manager in Social Work and Social Care: Essential Skills for Managing Care; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Becoming and Being an Effective Manager: Essential Skills and More; 2. Managing Yourself and Managing Others: There's Never Enough Time in the Day; 3. Skills for Managing Change: Everything's Changed but What's Different?; 4. Recruiting and Selection: Getting the Right Colleagues and Striving Towards Happiness; 5. Managing Meetings: Being a Smooth Operator
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613688484
- 9781280778094
- 1280778091
- 9780857004420
- 0857004425
- OCLC:
- 782879051
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